Leviticus 26:33

Leviticus 26:33 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
• New International Version (NIV)I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

Context of Leviticus 26:33

31I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me. 32Yes, I myself will devastate your land, and your enemies who come to occupy it will be appalled at what they see. I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins. 34Then at last the land will enjoy its neglected Sabbath years as it lies desolate while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. Then the land will finally rest and enjoy the Sabbaths it missed. 35As long as the land lies in ruins, it will enjoy the rest you never allowed it to take every seventh year while you lived in it.

Leviticus 26:33 word by word

וְאֶתְכֶם֙ אֱזָרֶ֣ה בַגּוֹיִ֔ם וַהֲרִיקֹתִ֥י אַחֲרֵיכֶ֖ם חָ֑רֶב וְהָיְתָ֤ה אַרְצְכֶם֙ שְׁמָמָ֔ה וְעָרֵיכֶ֖ם יִהְי֥וּ חָרְבָּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I will scatterזָרָהzârâh · to scatterH2219
• you among the heathenגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• and will draw outרִיקrûq · to emptyH7324
• a swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• you: and your landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• shall be desolateשְׁמָמָהshemâmâh shimâmâh · devastationH8077
• and your citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• wasteחׇרְבָּהchorbâh · desolationH2723

Cross-references for Leviticus 26:33

• Deuteronomy 4:27For the Lord will scatter you among the nations, where only a few of you will survive.
• Deuteronomy 28:64For the Lord will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone!
• Psalms 44:11You have butchered us like sheep and scattered us among the nations.
• Jeremiah 9:16I will scatter them around the world, in places they and their ancestors never heard of, and even there I will chase them with the sword until I have destroyed them completely.”
• Lamentations 1:3Judah has been led away into captivity, oppressed with cruel slavery. She lives among foreign nations and has no place of rest. Her enemies have chased her down, and she has nowhere to turn.
• Lamentations 4:15“Get away!” the people shouted at them. “You’re defiled! Don’t touch us!” So they fled to distant lands and wandered among foreign nations, but none would let them stay.
• Ezekiel 12:14I will scatter his servants and warriors to the four winds and send the sword after them.
• Ezekiel 20:23But I took a solemn oath against them in the wilderness. I swore I would scatter them among all the nations
• Ezekiel 22:15I will scatter you among the nations and purge you of your wickedness.
• Zechariah 7:14As with a whirlwind, I scattered them among the distant nations, where they lived as strangers. Their land became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned their pleasant land into a desert.”
• Luke 21:24They will be killed by the sword or sent away as captives to all the nations of the world. And Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the period of the Gentiles comes to an end.
• James 1:1This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing to the “twelve tribes”—Jewish believers scattered abroad. Greetings!

Commentaries on Leviticus 26:33

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3-45Verses 3-45 As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 23:20-33, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Leviticus 26:4 Rain in due season - The periodical rains, on which the fertility of the holy land so much depends, are here spoken of. There are two wet seasons, called…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-39Verses 14-39 After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience by the things they suffer…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-39God punishes his people to change their behavior and restore their relationship with him. He acts like a perfectly righteous and loving parent would with a disobedient child. The punishments, meant to stop rebellious behavior, gradually increase. This gives Israel a chance to repent at any time (Leviticus 26:18–28). Even when Israel faced exile from the land in 722 and 586 BC, God was working to restore them (see, for example, Isaiah 40–66; Jeremiah…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3333. I will scatter you among the heathen, &c.--as was done when the elite of the nation were removed into Assyria and placed in various parts of the kingdom.Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 26:33

• Backsliders
• Blessing
• Captivity
• Covenant
• Disobedience to God
• Judgments
• Punishment
• Reward
• Sabbatic Year
• Sin
• War
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Cast
• Chastise
• Enjoy
• Faintness
• Fall
• Heathen
• Jerusalem
• Jordan
• Rid
• Scatter

Commentaries on Leviticus 26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings